“The way I looked at it was that you can’t always wait for the green man to cross the road. Sometimes you have to go when it’s red – to get to the other side.”
Ronnie Drew RIP

Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society in Australasia is run by a friend of mine, Jayne Jenkins. Every year there is a scholar that gets to do some very cool things related to diving and the marine environment. I’ve setup a blog for this years scholar and Steve is filling it with some great photography and video, check it out by clicking here.

Speaking of blogs, check out Tony Wu’s blog, he is in Tonga at the moment with the Humpbacks!

No diving for me this weekend, Sea’s are up, so here is a pic from a  few weekends ago at Bare Island in Sydney.

Wow, August already and a whole month since I posted. Did a dive at Bare Island in Sydney today and found a message in a bottle .. can you see it?

A pleasant dive today although the water was nippy so I was glad I had my dry suit. Not many critters about, didn’t see one Weedy and expected to see some cold water critters like Red Indian fish but no joy. This is really the only decent shot I got..

Week before last I did a deepie to 48 metres on the Coolooli, a wreck off Sydney’s northern beaches. I was reminded about how important it is not to overload on a deep dive. I had two significant “loadings”, a camera and my first dive of the winter in my dry suit. Everything was fine but if something had gone wrong, with the stress of the camera and the re-acclimatisation to the drysuit, things could have been nasty, camera should have stayed at home for that dive! Got 3 average shots out of the dive, this is probably the best out of them, Coolooli (Dredge) on its side, ISO 800, F3.5 and 1/30th of a sec (viz wasn’ great).